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Notwithstanding the fact that a
severe wind and snow-storm COM
menced early in the evening. there
was a good attendance at the So
cial League meeting on Sunday
night. After the opening song BY
the choir, Mrs. Wood and Mr..
Emmons at the Instruments, Miss
Mccarthy took the platform and
in a clear and concise manner
stated the objects Of the League.
The speaker said that tho great
need of the hour was education
and true light on the great prob
lem that is forcing itself forward
and demanding a solution at the
hands OF men and women who
care for and are interested in the
Cause of Humanity. True know
ledge as to what constitutes Right
was essential to arrive at a solu-
ton Of the great industrial prob
lem. The objects of the League
we're to educate the common peo-
pie as to the causes which pro-
duce poverty, misery, degradation
and crime. Priests, preachers and
politicians were engaged in an
effort to justify, mystify and con-
done the crimes against the peo-
pie. Those who pose as the teach
ers of truth and purity, justice and
right, are in reality the bulwarks
of those who profit by roguery,
rascality and plunder. Outside
the Socialists there is no attempt
being made to present the truth to
the people.
Mrs. J. w. Wood rendered
"Only a Woman" in excellent
style.
D. M. -eahy took for his theme
the so-called anarchists. The
speaker entered at length into the
merits of the case and the great
principles involved. 1t involved
the constitutional rights of citi-
zens, it carried with it an impor-
tance such as no case in the pres
ent century ever possessed. The
meeting on the Haymarket was
swofn to by Mayor Harrison of
Chicago as being a peaceable and
orderly one, yet Bon6eld and his
police charged it ION the run with
drawn clubs and revolvers. A
bomb was thrown at the
police. Let us assume or admit that
a workingman threw the bomb.
If the police charged that meeting
of American citizens who were ex-
ercising their rights as such, then
the man who threw the bomb was
acting within the law and consti-
tuition which guarantees a citizen
the right to protect his life from
danger at the hands of law-break-
ing policemen or ordinary and un-
licensed ruffians.
After short recess Miss Rosa
Cohen read a selection from an
essay on labor-saving machinery
and its influences upon our pres
ent industrial system.
Henry Cohen gave "the news Of
the week" from the standpoint Of
a Socialist editor. The comrade
made many good points in his
treatment of the various notes and
happenings which came under his
notice.
]. J. Callahan discussed, in a
paper. the part played by the po-
lice and military in all countries
where so-called civilization exists.
[By request of the League the
same is printed in this weeks
issue.
Comrade Jack treated the ques-
tion of free speech. Old World
despotisms were credited with al
lowing no freedom of speech, yet
we can find the same methods
adoptedin in this country where free
press and free speech were the
great boasts of the people. The
attempts to sti1e freedom of ex-
preston in Chicago should be met